Sunburst, USA, 1997, reprint.  ISBN 0-374-43715-7.  Trade soft cover, 214 pages.  Unread copy; light edge and cover wear, tight binding; interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanning pages; some black & white illustrations.  ‘On the island of Barbados, where he’s moved with his family – and his secret diary – on the brink of his seventh-grade year, Jack Henry is forced to swelter away in summer school; gets painted purple from head to toe; discovers the perils of hot peppers; and has his heartstrings twanged by an older woman.  In these fierce and funny companion stories to Heads or Tails: Stories from the Sixth Grade and Jack’s Black Book, life in a tropical paradise ain’t no picnic.’ (from rear wrap)